Jeff Lageman
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First, second week in May.
I mean, the NFL tries to โ the NFL's done a masterful job of kind of handling and owning the offseason.
That's crazy.
Because you go from โ
the end of the season, and then you have the hiring process that is always generating news for the new head coaches.
Then you have free agency that rolls into the draft, and then after the draft, then you have actually practices, OTAs and minicamps, and then you enter that dead period in June.
But that draft and then also the schedule release and then the minicamps, OTAs, I mean, are tremendous.
I mean, you're โ
I mean, you're not playing any games, but, I mean, you're the kind of front and center story a lot of times on the sports page.
Can you imagine, you know, because nowadays you have the ability with computers to help you manage the schedule, right?
But can you imagine trying to handle a schedule in days of old?
Oh, yeah.
When you just had pieces of information in pieces of paper, and you were trying to generate some type of schedule that makes sense for everybody?
I mean, nowadays you've got, you know, AI and, you know, the computers to be able to help you out.
But you also have a lot of things to handle, for example, like the Jaguars need to be away from the stadium for a month or so at a particular time.
So that has to be entered in kind of as that stadium or as the regular season โ
Schedule comes out.
I mean, everybody has something like that to deal with, with different events that may conflict or they can't have a game on this particular date or weekend.
Gosh, baseball.
Yeah, that's crazy.